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Keeping Bees in The Stinging Fly 

4/26/2014

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A couple of months ago, I posted my thrill at having my poems featured in the Spring Issue of The Stinging Fly.  Recently, the editor asked me to write something for The Stinging Fly blog - something relating to how Keeping Bees came to be.   And so I wrote about duende (because without it there would be nothing wild or true in anything I write) and the body (because everyone has one, and everything we know or understand of the world comes into and goes out of our bodies) and feminism (because being one means that I will always write feminist, to the best of my abilities).   

"Keeping Bees is full of poems about the body. And fruit—where the fruit are nothing more than metaphors for the body and its parts. The same goes for the vegetables, and the poem about boxes, and the most logical poem I’ve ever written about a horse. I love the body. The word itself, the way it feels to say it, is sexy. The first syllable presses lips together, and then opens them up to a place where the second syllable presses the tongue up against the roof of the mouth; it is, as far as words go, absolutely one of the sexiest in the English language. In the end, while it doesn’t surprise me that the collection is full of body (and bodies) it didn’t start out that way. I had no poetic designs on the body. All I knew is that I had one, and everyone else had one too".

It was an absolute pleasure to write this piece, and I am very thankful to have been asked to do so.    For anyone interested in reading the full piece, it can be accessed here.  Copies of the current issue of The Stinging Fly can be purchased here.



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Zoey link
10/17/2021 06:02:13 pm

Greeat post thank you

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    Dimitra Xidous's debut collection 'Keeping Bees" is available now from Doire Press.  

    She is co-founder and co-editor of The Pickled Body
      

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